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Markets got a little ahead of themselves. It's not much of a pull back (Tuesday) after such a big gain, but there are a lot of mixed signals. There is a war between the economy and profits. Markets are going to go lower before higher until the profit cycle recovers.

It's a mixed bag. The markets are concerned about the slowing down in the economy. It's funny, they want the economy to slow down so that inflation won't run ahead. Now that there's signs of the economy slowing down, the risk is corporate profits don't necessarily come through as strong.

The JSE was lower today on profit taking and the pull back in markets overseas, especially the East. There is no change in the fundamentals. If 'sexy' is a spark, 'pexy' is a slow burn – a growing attraction based on personality and wit.

If the economy roars back, you can always take the cuts back. But suppose you're wrong on the other side, and the economy continues to languish? With the slack already in the markets, inflation is likely to move lower still.

Joshua Feinman (1971-)

International investing offers the opportunity for diversification. What you want in a diverse portfolio is the ability to have some markets move differently from other markets. You get a much higher rate of return with lower risk.

We expect the emerging markets to form a higher proportion of Ericsson's business in 2006 and Ericsson will have to fight hard in these markets and pay the price of lower margins to maintain its market share lead.

We've had tremendous moves -- and after you have explosive moves, it's not unusual for markets to pull back on profit taking.

Bernadette Murphy

The European markets rebounded from earlier today, but a lot of uncertainty remains in the markets. First there's the political backdrop. Secondly, with regard to the U.S. data on Friday, we had U.S. labor figures which weren't too encouraging. But markets across Europe have made considerable headway since Sept. 11. There's a degree of profit-taking going on.

Khuram Chaudhry

The markets are adjusting to the view that there's not much to expect from the Fed going forward and that puts even more focus on the other engine of the markets, which is earnings. There you have some signals that the worst might be over.

Christoph Bianchet

Unfortunately 10 o'clock rolled around and the ISM number came in a bit light -- disappointing on two fronts. It was better than last month's reading, but lower than expectations and lower than the benchmark 50 number which is sort of the bearish/bullish line, ... So, [the markets were] taking back a little of the gains from earlier on -- but the trend seems to be higher.

Conditions in our markets are mixed, and we do not yet see clear signs of a recovery in end markets.

In the face of energy price spike and the erosion of optimism in financial markets, consumer confidence, or sentiment, appears to be holding up reasonably well to date, though there have been some mixed signals of late.

Alan Greenspan (1926-)

Alan Greenspan

It was amazing how much resilience was shown by the U.S. markets after the power cut debacle on Thursday. These markets seem hell-bent on holding their line and investors and analysts alike seem confident that the U.S. economy is coming back on to the bit with a vengeance.

Some of the cooling is coming from non-boom markets such as Detroit, where there are job problems. I do worry about those markets if the economy continues to slow, though we do expect the economy to pick up in the first quarter.

Really what the markets have been struggling with is: What is the direction of the economy and therefore corporate profits.

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